TORONTO - Adam Lind and Edwin Encarnacion hit back-to-back home runs in the seventh inning Saturday afternoon to power the Toronto Blue Jays to a 6-3 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays.

The three-run outburst made a winner of kuckleballer R.A. Dickey, who has won his last four decisions and six of his last eight. Dickey (13-12) gave up three runs on four hits in seven innings, striking out five and walking two.

It marked the 19th straight game that a Toronto starter had gone six innings or more, matching a 1998 run.

Lind's drive over the centre-field fence, his fifth homer of the season, drove in Jose Bautista courtesy of a walk by reliever Brad Boxberger. Ten of Lind's last 11 homers have come with runners on base.

Boxberger (5-2) gave way to Steve Geltz and Encarnacion drove his first pitch into the 200 level of left field for a 6-3 lead. Encarnacion's 31st home run marked the eighth time this season the Jays have homered on back-to-back pitches.

Encarnacion, who came into the game hitting just .207 over 23 games since coming off the disabled list Aug. 15 for a quad strain, has been averaging a home run every 14 at-bats.

Casey Janssen pitched the ninth for his 23rd save as Toronto outhit Tampa 7-6.

Evan Longoria homered for Tampa Bay, his franchise-leading 183rd, before 31,268 spectators under the Rogers Centre roof.

Toronto (77-70) lost the series opener 1-0 on Friday night, snapping a four-game win streak. The Jays have now won 10 of their last 13 outings.

Tampa (71-78) is 4-4 in its last eight games, blowing leads of 4-0, 4-0, 3-0 and 2-0 in the losses.

Tampa's Jeremy Hellickson, making his 11th start since coming off the disabled list July 7 after elbow surgery in January, limited the Jays to three runs on four hits in six innings. He struck out eight and walked four

Hellickson, the AL rookie of the year in 2011, has now faced Toronto in three of his last five starts. He lost 5-2 to Dickey and the Jays in Tampa on Sept. 2 but did not get the decision in the other two starts.

The 39-year-old Dickey came into the game with 189 2/3 innings pitched as he approaches the 200 mark for the fourth straight year.

Dickey's first inning lasted just seven pitches but the Jays were down 1-0 after six of them. Ben Zobrist led off with a double and scored on two straight infield ground balls.

That boded poorly for the Jays, who came into the game 22-41 when yielding the first run.

Tampa manufactured another run in the third after Kevin Kiermaier singled to right and advanced to second, having baited Bautista to throw to first. A groundout and wild pitch made it 2-0. Dickey escaped further damage when the Rays were unable to cash men on second and third after a two-out walk and Longoria double.

Toronto went ahead 3-2 in the bottom of a messy third for the Rays. Ryan Goins got to first when a wild pitch saved him from a strikeout. He moved to second on an Anthony Gose single and scored on Hellickson's throwing error on a Jose Reyes sacrifice bunt. Gose then scored when Hellickson couldn't handle a Bautista ball hit back to him. Lind's fielder's choice scored Reyes to put the Jays ahead.

Toronto failed to take advantage in the fifth after loading the bases with two outs. And Longoria tied it 3-3, leading off the sixth with his 21st homer of the season. One out later, Wil Myers followed with a fly ball to the centre-field warning track.

The Rays benefited from slick fielding plays from Longoria at third base in both the first and second innings. Reyes matched him in the fourth, jumping high to stab a Yunel Escobar liner. Escobar pulled off a carbon-copy catch on Josh Thole in the bottom of the inning.

Rays outfielder Matt Joyce was thrown out in the ninth after a disagreement with the umpire during his at-bat.

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